opposing critics Iago

Question 1

“Iago is not much more than a necessary piece of dramatic mechanism”
-Leavis

Answer 1

DISAGREE !!!

Question 2

VS “evil is an active force embodied in Iago. He is a dramatic symbol of evil whose function is to cause the downfall of Othello”
Ribner

Answer 2

-supports idea of a vice character

Question 3

Iago stands supreme as other Shakespeare’s evil characters because the greatest intensity and subtlety of imagination”

Answer 3

-links back to “motiveless malignity”

Question 4

“motive hunting of motiveless malignity”
-Coleridge

Question 5

VS “Iago is a pathological jealousy of his wife”
“jealous love of Desdemona”
-Kenneth Muir

Question 6

“if Iago didn’t have a real sympathy with the man he is tormenting, he wouldn’t know how to hurt him.” “enormous admiration and desperate envy and you only envy something you admire”
Anthony Quale

Answer 6

-shown in mirroring of language between O and I
-marriage like vow: “I am your own forever”